Losing WordPress dashboard password is very annoying if you have no way of getting it back. Well if you use cPanel there is still one way you can get your dashboard access back. You will be needing to access phpmyadmin to reset your password, and if you are not using cPanel as your control panel you can still reset password…
How to install and Configure cPanel/WHM!
Installing cPanel/WHM is fairly easy, you can install cPanel/WHM with only one command. However, in this article, we will discuss how we can first install cPanel/WHM and then perform the after-install steps so that we can get the maximum out of our dedicated server or VPS. Some important things we need to decide which options to keep and which one…
How to Clean a Hacked WordPress Site!
Getting your site hacked is really a painfull thing, and if you are reading this probably your WordPress site got hacked. The first thing you need to do is don’t get panic. The first thing you need to do is don’t get panic and check if you have a backup of your WordPress website. Be calm and let see how…
Use Burp Proxy to Intercept HTTP Traffic!
Burp proxy is a very nice tool to intercept HTTP traffic, it normally comes pre-installed with kali linux. In this article we will see how we can use burp proxy on Ubuntu and intercept GET and POST requests. I’am writing this separate article for burp proxy because some of its features are promising like stopping the web requests on fly…
Automate Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack using Beautiful Soup and Mechanize
Python can be used to develop a small customized application to automate cross site scripting attack, it can be very useful if you are performing a penetration test and need to automate few tasks. We will be using two python libraries Beautiful Soup and Mechanize to parse the website document and than submit forms using Mechanize. Cross Site Scripting is…
Combine Python Graphical User Interface with SQL Injection
Python is great language for penetration testing, I saw that people mostly develop python applications with command line versions only. How ever python have such a beautiful library named Tkinter to develop a graphical user based application, in this article we will combine Tkinter with sql injection to create a small GUI application that can check a website for SQL…
Use Python to automate SQL Injection!
Manually testing for SQL Injection on your web application is really a hectic job, and some times the automatic scanners available does not actually fit your needs. Python comes to our rescue with its rich set of available libraries that can easily automate this task for us. You can easily write python scripts that fits your application requirement plus you…
How to install and configure ModSecurity on cPanel/WHM!
Website security is very important matter to date, and ModSecurity is one of the best web application firewall out there helping many web masters around the world securing their web application. Already a lot of hosting companies and individual users are using cPanel/WHM to manage their web servers, in this article we will see how we can install and configure…
WordPress Security Through Logging & Audit Trail
WordPress security; many typically think of hardening techniques, WordPress hacks, firewalls and other similar defensive mechanisms and plugins. Though there is another very important aspect of security; logging and audit trials. A WordPress audit trail allows you to keep an eye on the production of all your users, keep a record of every change that happens on your WordPress, and…
How to install ModSecurity (mod_security) in apache web server on Ubuntu!
ModSecurity is one of the best web application level firewall, it can stop most of the common web attacks before even they reach your web application. If your website is vulnerable to an XSS attack, and ModSecurity is installed in your server than it can easily prevent that attack from reaching your web application, that does not means you should…